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At The Table with Patrick Lencioni

60. Sometimes Democracy Sucks

At The Table with Patrick Lencioni

Patrick Lencioni

Business, Management

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A great way to run a country, a bad way to run a business.  Pat and Cody discuss the problems with trying to manage an organization as a pure democracy.  

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of At the Table with Patrick Linconey, where everything we talk

0:14.3

about is related to changing the world of work so that more organizations can be more

0:18.4

effective and less dysfunctional, and employees can be more fulfilled and less miserable.

0:22.6

I'm your host Pat Linconey and I'm joined as always by my co-host, Cody Thompson.

0:27.6

How you doing Cody?

0:28.6

As always here and great.

0:30.6

Just the two of us today on Mike.

0:32.1

That's right. We do have our producer

0:33.4

Tracy in house and our engineer Matt. And what's our topic today? Tracy, I mean

0:38.6

Cody, right here in front of Tracy. Right in your face. Sometimes democracy sucks.

0:44.1

That's right.

0:45.4

Hope that's interesting.

0:46.3

Take that, Tracy.

0:47.4

That's right.

0:47.9

You know, Winston Churchill once said

0:50.3

Democracy was the worst form of government except for all the others and I think he was right and

0:56.4

democracy is a very messy way to run in a country but there's not a better way that I can think of

1:01.8

And of course when we talk about a democracy

1:04.1

and running a company, we're not talking about a pure democracy.

1:07.0

We're talking about, was it Plato?

1:09.0

It wasn't Aristotle.

1:09.8

I think it was Plato who talked about,

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